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February 2005 Pond Leaves Behind Decades of ServiceStanford Business School lost one of its most faithful alumni and able administrators when Samuel “Pete” Pond, MBA ’39, died of the effects of a stroke at Stanford Hospital on October 14, 2004. He was 90. Pond served in nearly every top administrative post in the School between 1961, when his boyhood friend, Dean Ernest C. Arbuckle, asked him to help out, until 1981, when, at age 67, Pond felt he was expected to retire. His highest post was one he would rather not have held: When Arbuckle died in an automobile crash in 1969, Pond stepped in as acting dean and led the school until 1971, when Arbuckle’s successor, Arjay Miller, took over. In his 23 years of “retirement,” Pond bought and sold a company, became an active trustee of his college prep school in Ojai, Calif., and traveled extensively. Pond had a keen sense of place. When he had three brushes with serious illness he managed to locate them in Fez, Morocco; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France. He also had a sparkling sense of humor. A veteran of World War II, he loved to tell acquaintances how he missed the boat—Jack Kennedy’s PT-109, that is—when he skippered PT-108 in the waning days of the war. Pond was a native Californian whose family had arrived in the state in the early 1850s. His grandfather, Edward Bates Pond, was mayor of San Francisco and later ran for governor. The earlier Pond lost the election to Leland Stanford. |
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